Elaine Daily-Birnbaum is a mixed media painter. Her abstract work is deeply personal and very much process centered. She is a member of the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society. We asked her [...]
Painting is a solitary pursuit, and you never have to show your work to anyone. Once you get good though, you might start wanting other people to see what you can do. It’s an amazing [...]
What can you do when a painting isn’t working (besides give up ☺)?Oil painter/pastellist William Schneider has an answer! (Okay, It’s ONE answer but it has four parts. But they’re all related!) Schneider’s compositions are [...]
Kyle Ma has made a name for himself as an outstanding painter of one of the most dramatic and breathtaking natural spots in America – the Grand Canyon. It’s a pinnacle of his work and [...]
“It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.” -Apuleius, The Tale of Cupid and Psyche “Apuleius reminds us that love—like art—cannot be confined.” So writes author Brainard Carey commenting on the above quote by the [...]
I have a friend who likes to say that picking up a brush when you’re about to paint something is not the first step in the artistic process – it’s the last. What drives you [...]
Alongside his revolutionary North American landscapes, Thomas Cole issued a prophetic warning of cosmic proportions to the so-called civilized world. The five paintings (or volumes – together they read like an epic poem) in Thomas [...]
Hundreds of artists just spent three-plus days learning from some of today’s greatest watercolor painters at the Plein Air Convention & Expo (PACE). Among them, the editor of Inside Art’s free sister publication, American Watercolor, [...]
By PleinAir™ Magazine Today we take you behind the curtain for insight into how art competition judges think and what they look for in winning work. We talked to the professional artists and curators who [...]
“A happy life is not a life without struggle – it’s a life with meaningful struggle.” That’s the opinion of author Mark Manson. “Doing hard things,” he says, “is a habit that must be practiced [...]
